Although the boutique winery, established in 1892, is next door to Silicon Valley, it's a spectacular site "tucked among redwood groves along the historic "Chaine d'Or" high in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Doug's full-page color cartoon - caption: "I violate local community standards. What do you do?" - was also reproduced on the dust jacket front flap of The Art of Doug Sneyd, published by Dark Horse Books in July 2011. The 248-page hardcover book, now in a second printing, features 270 of Doug's Playboy cartoons; his first cartoon was published in the September 1964 issue.

Sunday, March 15, 2015

Doug's first comics-cartoon convention was May 2007 in San Jose. Dean and Doug, who had not previously met, were assigned adjacent tables in Artist Alley; it was a great opportunity to discuss their projects, careers and experiences as cartoonists.

The two were also assigned adjacent tables in Artist Alley at the 2014 Big Wow Comic Fest in San Jose, California.

Since that first convention in 2007, Doug and I meet Dean and Barbara for dinner during the San Diego Comic-Con International, where both Playboy cartoonists exhibit.

JJ Koester - Ice Block Co-founder, Producer - focused interview questions on how the artists approached their work and how the veteran cartoonists have seen the industry change over the course of their careers. For example, Sergio began his career at Mad Magazine in the early 1960s; Stan's been publishing Usagi Yojimbo since 1984; Doug's full-page color cartoons have been published in Playboy since the September 1964 issue.

Ice Block, media specialists in Tokyo who focus on the creation of unique multi-media content, describes The Rogues' Gallery as offering "insight into the minds of great artists from a wide array of fields in the creative arts."

Killing Patton, on the New York Times Best Seller list for over 5 months, focuses on the final year of World War II and the December 1945 death - accident or assassination??? - of General George Patton.

George C. Scott starred in the 1970 movie Patton, which won 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

So, when I noticed "George C. Scott Interviewed: A Probing Conversation with the Last Angry Man in Show Business" on the cover of the December 1980 issue of Playboy, I had to check it out.

Doug enjoyed meeting celebrity guest Richard Kiel, whose career in TV and film spanned nearly 50 years. The 7'2" actor, who made his television debut at age 21 in the NBC western Laramie, was famous as the James Bond villain Jaws.

We thought you might be interested to see a preliminary pencil rough for Doug's Nov. 1988, p. 169 Playboy cartoon; it was also reproduced on p. 104 in The Art of Doug Sneyd, published by Dark Horse Books in July 2011. The 248-page hardcover book featured 270 of Doug's full-page color Playboy cartoons; his first Playboy cartoon was published in the September 1964 issue.

Caption: "He has two distinct personalities - one chases women and the other watches football."

Artwork size: 7 x 9 1/4, done on heavy tracing vellum.

To see more of Doug's Playboy preliminary pencil and color roughs, visit the Doug Sneyd Premium Gallery at:

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Bio

Doug has been a cartoonist for Playboy magazine since 1964.
For nearly 20 years, starting in the mid-60's, his "Doug Sneyd" and "Scoops" news cartoons appeared daily in newspapers across North America. Sneyd's talent has also led him into cinema: in 1993, he wrote, produced and directed "Black-eyed Susan," an educational movie-drama about spousal abuse, for the Ontario government. He was a founding member of the Canadian Society of Book Illustrators and has been a member of the National Cartoonists' Society and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Thirty of his full-page color Playboy cartoons are among the 235 Sneyd works included in the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa.
Sneyd was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, but spent much of his professional career in Toronto. In 1969 he moved his family north to Orillia made famous as the mythical "Mariposa" by humorist Stephen Leacock. He works on the third floor of his home-studio overlooking beautiful Lake Couchiching and spends his winters on the Gulf Coast in Orange Beach, Alabama.